Two Lists

Songs From The 80s About Masturbation:
Cindy Lauper - She Bop (youtube)
Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself (youtube)
The Vapors - Turning Japanese (youtube)
Divinlys - I Touch Myself (Technically from '91, but deal with it) (youtube)
Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey* (youtube)
Clarence Carter - Strokin' (youtube)
Billy Squire - The Stroke (youtube)
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun (youtube)
The Cure - Close to Me (youtube)
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army - Everyday I Die (So it's from '79. Sue me.) (youtube)
DEVO - Jerkin' Back and Forth (youtube)
DEVO - Whip It* (youtube)
DEVO - Praying Hands (youtube)
Oingo Boingo - Nasty Habits (youtube)
The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict (youtube)

*Not actually about masturbation.

Songs from the 80s about Nuclear War:
Timbuk3 - The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades (youtube)
Prince - 1999 (youtube)
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (youtube)
Soft Cell - Tainted Love (youtube)
Nena - 99 Luft Balons (youtube)
The Clash - Stop the World (youtube)
REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It (youtube)
Fear - Let's Have A War (youtube)
Fear - Bomb the Russians (youtube)
Alphaville - Forever Young (youtube)
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight (youtube)
Laurie Anderson - O Superman (for Massenet)* (youtube)
The Weirdos - We Got the Neutron Bomb (mp3)
Bonzo Goes To Washington - 5 Minutes (youtube)

*Also about other stuff.

An Album From Every Nation on Earth.

Thus far completed. If you are interested in any of the albums listed here, contact me or use Google Blogsearch.

Afghanistan: "Ahmad Zahir - Afghan Music Volume 1"
Albania: "Old Traditional Music Recordings From Albania"
Algeria:
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangaldesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil: "Batucada: Sound of the Favelas", "Jorge Ben - s/t"
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burma
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic: "Konono No.1- Congotronics"
Congo, Republic
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt: "Music of Islam- Vol. 1: al-Qahirah: Classical Music of Cairo Egypt", "Music of Islam- Vol. 2: Music of South Sinai Bedouins", "Music of Islam- Vol. 3: Music of the Nubians, Aswan, Egypt"
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia: "VA - Ethiopiques, Vol. 8: Swinging Addis"
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
The Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Hati
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia: "Topong Bang - Gending Gending Java", "Music of Islam- Vol 15: Muslim Music of Indonesia, Aceh and West Sumatra"
Iran: "Music of Islam- Vol. 12: Music of Iran, Karaj, Iran"
Iraq: "Sublime Frequencies - Choubi Choubi! Folk and Pop Sounds from Iraq"
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan: "Soloists of the Ensemble Nipponia - Japan: Traditional Vocal and Instrumental Music", "Kôbôdaïshi Mieku - Shomyo: Chant Liturgique Boudhique", "Kodo - Ubu-Suna"
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kirbati
North Korea
South Korea
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco: "El Maalem Mahmoud Gania- s/t", "Music of Islam- Vol 5: Aissaoua Sufi Ceremony, Marrakesh, Morocco", "Music of Islam- Vol 6: Al-Maghrib & Gnâwa Music, Marrakesh, Morocco", "Music of Islam - Vol. 7: Al-Andalûs, Andalusian Music, Tetouan, Morocco"
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria: "King Sunny Ade & His African Beats - Conscience"
Norway
Oman
Pakistan: "Music of Islam- Vol. 13: Music of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan"
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar: "Music of Islam- Vol. 4: Music of the Arabian Peninsula- Doha, Qatar"
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts & Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent & The Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé & Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Tunisia: "Music of Islam- Vol. 8: Folkloric Music of Tunisia"
Turkey: "Music of Islam- Vol. 9: Mawlawiyah Music of the Whirling Dervishes", "Music of Islam- Vol 10: Qur'ân Recitation, Istanbul, Turkey"
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
UAE
UK
USA
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen: "Music of Islam- Vol. 11: Music of Yemen, Sana'a, Yemem"
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Voicemail Inbox

I made some experimental music.

Lyall W. - Voicemain Inbox: End of Summer '08 - End of Year '08

NEU!: NEU! '75

Neu! is a german band from the 70s. In 1975 they released their third studio album, appropriately titled Neu! '75. It would be the last album they released for 20 years. Let's see if it's any good.

1. ISI (5:07)
The forward-moving "motorik beat" (wiki) provides a compelling backdrop to a lovely little piano and shimmering synths. This is a very pretty song that feels relentlessly optimistic. Am uplifting track that doesn't push it's luck and never becomes schmaltzy.

2. SEELAND (6:54)
Neu! slows things down. This song just washed over me, which isn't a bad thing. If 'Isi' is the bright optimism of a new day, 'Seeland' is the reflective calm at dusk. There's something very victorious about this song too, in a refrained, stately way.

3. LEB WOHL (8:51)
Not really feeling this one too much. Very spare track; maybe if I could understand German I would appreciate it more, since the focus is on the lyrics. They must have asked the drummer to step out for this one, since they replaced him with a metronome. Maybe he went down to the beach and recorded the sound of the waves which are a constant in this one.

4. HERO (7:12)
Now here's a song that ROCKS. A total freak-out psych jam that goes hard and doesn't quit. Sweeeeeeeeeet.

5. E-MUSIK (9:58)
This song takes the 'ROCK' theme of 'Hero' and elaborates on it making for a long-form jam that, well, rocks. The last three minutes of the song are given over to some ambient noodling and tape-fuckery, but it's all good.

6. AFTER EIGHT (4:44)
This is punk rock, and that's a good thing. A solid closer

Neu! '75 may not be for everyone. The first half tends toward the ambient, and even though the second half is solid rock, many listeners have no patience for a song over 3 and a half minutes, which I every song on this album is. Listener prejudice aside, this album is cohesive, engaging and highly enjoyable.

Give it a spin.

GTA IV: The Vibe

* R. Kelly - "Bump n' Grind"
* Mtume - "C.O.D. (I'll Deliver)"
* Alexander O'Neal - "Criticize"
* RAMP - "Daylight"
* The Isley Brothers - "Footsteps in the Dark (Part 1 & 2)"
* Jodeci - "Freek'n You"
* Lloyd - "Get It Shawty"
* Jill Scott - "Golden"
* Loose Ends - "Hangin' On A String (Contemplating)"
* Freddie Jackson - "Have You Ever Loved Somebody"
* Dru Hill - "In My Bed (So So Def remix)"
* Marvin Gaye - "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"
* Minnie Riperton - "Inside My Love"
* Barry White - "It's Only Love Doing Its Thing"
* C.J. - "I Want You"
* The S,O.S. Band - "Just Be Good To Me"
* Ginuwine - "Pony"
* Raheem DeVaughn - "You"
* Ne-Yo - "Because of You"

DOWNLOAD:
>> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0UNTWKHO <<

Disclaimer: All mp3s are for evaluation purposes only. Files must be deleted within 24 hours or someone will be really upset!

GTA IV: Electrochoc

* Padded Cell - "Signal Failure"
* Black Devil Disco Club - "The Devil in Us (Dub)"
* One + One - "No Pressure (Deadmau5 Remix)"
* Alex Gopher - "Brain Leech (Bugged mind remix)"
* K.I.M. - "By The Time They Reach You (The Bag Raiders Would Have Stolen Your Wallen And Changed All Your Money To Euros And Gone Shopping In Paris Remix)"
* Simian Mobile Disco - "Tits & Acid"
* Kavinsky - "Testarossa Autodrive (SebastiAn Remix)"
* Chris Lake vs. Deadmau5 - "I Thought Inside Out (Original Mix)"
* Boys Noize - "& Down"
* Justice - "Waters of Nazareth"
* Killing Joke - "Turn to Red"
* Playgroup - "Make it Happen"
* Liquid Liquid – "Optimo"

DOWNLOAD:
>> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A30ZLE25 <<

Disclaimer: All music is for evaluation purposes only. You must delete all files within 24 hours or your computer will melt!!! It's the law!!!

GTA IV: Fusion FM

* David McCallum - "The Edge"
* Roy Ayers - "Funk in the Hole"
* Gong - "Heavy Tune"
* David Axelrod - "Holy Thursday"
* Grover Washington, Jr. - "Knucklehead"
* Aleksander Maliszewski - "Pokusa"
* Ryo Kawasaki - "Raisins"
* Marc Moulin - "Stomp"
* Billy Cobham - "Stratus"
* Tom Scott & The L.A. Express - "Sneakin' in The Back"

'Pokusa' is a direct rip from the in-game radio because that was the only copy I could find. As usual, the rest of the tracks are the uncut album versions.

DOWNLOAD:
>> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NFG13JIN <<

Disclaimer:
All mp3 files are for evaluation purposes only. Music should be deleted within 24 hours or the RIAA will fuck you.

GTA IV: The Journey

* Global Communication - "5:23 (Maiden Voyage)"
* Terry Riley - "A Rainbow in Curved Air"
* Steve Roach - "Arrival"
* Michael Shrieve - "Communique 'Approach Spiral'"
* Jean Michel Jarre - "Oxygène, Pt 4"
* Philip Glass - "Pruit Igoe"
* Tangerine Dream - "Remote Viewing"
* Aphex Twin - "[z twig] aka [b+w stripes]"
* Ray Lynch - "The Oh of Pleasure"

DOWNLOAD:
>>> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FYP7Q63R <<<

Disclaimer:
All mp3 files are for evaluation purposes only. Music should be deleted within 24 hours...

GTA IV: Radio Broker

* The Boggs - "Arm in Arm (Shy Child Mix)"
* Cheeseburger - "Cocaine"
* Get Shakes - "Disneyland, Pt 1"
* LCD Soundsystem - "Get Innocuous!"
* The Prairie Cartel - "Homicide" (999 cover)
* Juliette and the Licks - "Inside the Cage (David Gilmour Girls remix)"
* U.N.K.L.E. featuring: The Duke Spirit - "Mayday"
* The Rapture - "No Sex For Ben"
* Tom Vek - "One Horse Race"
* Teenager - "Pony"
* Les Savy Fav - "Rage in the Plague Age"
* White Light Parade - "Riot in the City"
* Deluka - "Sleep Is Impossible"
* The Black Keys - "Strange Times"
* The Pistolas - "Take It with a Kiss"
* Ralph Myerz - "The Teacher"
* Greenskeepers - "Vagabond"
* Whitey - "Wrap It Up"
* !!! - "Yadnus (Still Going to the Roadhouse mix)"

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ESRTPC11

And another thing...

In addition to there being no elegant method of tagging music,* why can I not have my computer aggregate the total of those tags every week and post it to this place?

THESE PROBLEMS NEED SOLVING

*There is a somewhat elegant solution using Quicksilver (Mac).

How To Download Music From The Internet

A Guide for the Confused.

Reposted from Facebook.

I've had some people asking me how to find music lately so here are the answers to those questions.

I find most of my music these days using Google Blog search.
Step One. Pick an album you want to download. Two, go to Google Blog Search and type in the album name/artist. Look for the links that don't look totally sketchy. Unlike a web search, you might have to dig a little deeper than just the first few results. Alternatively, just check out the aggregates in the links below. They look good.

The downloads are usually uploaded to rapidshare/megaupload/zshare, etc. If you're looking to download a bunch at once, go for the links that aren't to rapidshare since they make you wait a while between each download. (And enter a bunch of fucking cats) You can do a couple downloads in a row with Megaupload, and other sites have even high limits. Most of these sites have prohibitions against downloading more than one thing at once, but there's generally a variety of options of where to download from.

Here's the fun part. Once you find the album, which is usually on a blogspot blog, look around the rest of the blog, because they'll have things related to what you were looking for and it's a good way to discover music. These blogs also have long lists of links on the side to other music blogs. I usually open all the cool sounding ones in new tabs and go apeshit downloading everything I can that sounds good or looks interesting. Here's a list of blogs that I've found cool stuff from.

General Experimental Music

Mutant Sounds They write reviews too, which is cool. Lots of Krautrock/related.
Rusted Noise Industrial stuff
Silent Noise Control All sorts of weirdness.
Because God Told Me To Do It Weird shit.
Tonton Mahood More of the 'rock' side of experimental, but still a buncha weird shit.
Deleted Scenes, Forgotten Dreams All these experimental blogs have cool weird stuff, actually.
DualTrack Recently posted a horror movie starring Tiny Tim as a clown, if you're into that.
Experimental, Etc Lots of good stuff here.
Museum of Imaginary Histories They write reviews too.
The Thing on the Doorstep I ended up with some cool post-punk (I think?) stuff from this blog.
A Closet of Curiosities Lotta field recordings on this one.
Astraal Tempel RhytHymns Drone, krautrock, anything with a more meditative vibe.
Electronix Obscure

Grab Bag

Staring at the Apocalypse
It's Coming Out of Your Speaker
Infinite-Machine Everything from Jazz to Anarchopunk. There's a bunch of Crass up right now.
Psychotic Leisure Music More than just the name.
Square Dancing in a Round House They categorize by genre on the side-bar, which makes it easy to explore.
Anticonsciousness Hipster stuff, I think. I dunno?
In the Crowd! "Soul, Blues, Jazz, R&B, Ska, Punk, All Stuff and More" to quote.
Querbeet From William Basinski, Miles Davis, Flipper, Einsturzen Neuabaten, Devendra Banhart, Brianiac. Just to name some shit.
Seven Spaces of Empty Place "Pop/Psych/Folk/Noise/Jazz/World and other things..."
Chronic Music
Musical SchizophreniaIndie/Rock/Hip-Hop
Caucasian Tabloid
Steal Bars Check out the Ratatat remixes. Also, they have some rare Girl Talk.

World

Awesome Tapes from Africa Legit.
Sun of Latin Music
Abracadabra- LPs do Brasil LPs from Brazil.
Brazilian Nuggets More on the Brazilian music tip.
Reggae Roots Downloads One love, man

Funk/Soul

Funky16Corners This guy knows what's up when it comes to all things soulful.
Iron Leg The 'Other Blog' of the Funky16Corners guy. Focuses more on Garage/Psychedelia. Check the Digital Trip archives.
Sounds of the 70s More than just funk, but that too.

Hip-Hop

The Smoking Section For more mainstream rap. They're good at posting stuff that's going to be popular before it is, for those of you concerned with that.
Beats and Blood Mostly hip-hop. Currently some Glam-Rock goin' on.
Real Hip Hop Beholders
The Essence of Hip Hop
[ [ dope blog fresh ] ]Both dope and fresh, I suppose.
The Hip-Hop Collection
Diggin in da (indie)cratez Unheard of vinyl rips
Hip Hop - 12"
Underground Hip Hop Collection Blog
Original Underground Hip Hop I had no idea that Nas was 'underground,' but so it goes.
Underground Rap US & French
Strickly 4 th G's Please, no non-G's.
The Best BLOG of Hardcore RAP
Strictly Beats Instrumental stuff
Underground Dirty Rap Shaolin Soul
Underground Hip-Hop for Dummies Only for dummies.
Another Sound Mission Lots of influential artists/albums

Electronica/Dance

The Sexy Result The only decent strictly electronica/dance blog I've found so far. It's alright.

Aggregates

Link Talk This is a forum. Referred by Elliot. Looks like they have a ton.
Chewbone
XChannel

Wishlist

This is stuff I want that I either haven't found or haven't looked for yet. Lemme know if you find anything.
-Movies. Apparently you can download whole movies in good quality online. Where? How?
-80s/New Wave, beyond the usual litany of 80's one hit wonders- or the albums the good ones are from.
-Disco, not the mainstream stuff, but stuff from when Disco was still an underground thing
-Good Dance Music, whatever you think that means.
-Some Masters at Work, Frankie Knuckles or other early Chicago House music
-Jungle, not the watered down stuff. ShyFX and related artists would be good.
-Oldies, pop and rock & roll from the 50's, 60's. It'd probably be in a torrent, but I'd like some sort of compilation that's basically all the stuff they play on oldies radio
-The GTA IV soundtrack
-More Trip-Hop

Alright, there it is. That's how I find music online. Hope that helps those of you that were asking. If you have a method for finding music, what is it? What are some good sites? Let me know.

Don't be an elitist fuck, share music. Being greedy doesn't make you cool, it kills music.

Any questions, ask.

...and on the Third Day

Happy Easter to you, if you're into that kind of thing.



I saw a Justice concert on Thursday. It was awesome. One of the loudest concerts I've even been to. I've never experience sound on such a tactile level before. Diplo opened for them, he was great too. The bass was ridiculous. Good time over all.

Is there a program that let's you tag mp3s? Not id3 tags for identification purposes, but keywords, the way blog posts have tags. The kind of tags you can make a tag cloud from. This would be a great feature for either the filetype, or a media player to incorporate. A feature of this nature would have multiple benefits.

It would allow easier playlist creation. I like creating playlists, but the way iTunes is set up, it's hard to create a flexible playlist. It's also annoying because a good playlist is complied organically, as one finds songs that fit together thematically. Usually I get an idea for a playlist when I think of two songs that would work well together. With a tagging system I could label them both, say "smooth," then move on. When I hear more songs that fit that description I can tag them as well. When I want to see how far along that playlist is, I can just pull up all songs labeled "smooth."

Now sure, I could just make a playlist on iTunes called "smooth" and throw songs into it, but it doesn't allow the same flexibility. First, a tagging system would reduce clutter as the playlists would just be a function of searching, not a slew of seperate lists. It would also allow much greater flexibility. The two examples linked to above are both hip-hop songs. However, my collection of songs labeled smooth will cross many different genres. Assuredly, the interface will support boolean operators. (Something iTunes has lacked for too long.) I could limit my playlist to songs with the genera hip-hop, but with the tag 'smooth' This would allow playlist creation to be extremely flexible. Suppose I want songs tagged "one-hit wonder" but only from the 80s. Easy. What about songs tagged both "smooth" and "love song"? Simple.

Boolean logic could extend beyond the realm of tags as well, allowing a user to generate playlists with AND, OR, XOR operators, etc. I could make a playlist of songs with the genre "Electronica" but exclude everything made before 2000, or only songs that are 'remixes' would be included. The functionality of a feature like this is open-ended, both as an organizational and informational tool.

So why hasn't anyone done it yet?